Robert Kraft

Robert Kraft (5 June 1941-) was an American businessman who was chairman and CEO of the Kraft Group, a diverse holding company; he was also the owner of the New England Patriots football team. On 22 February 2019, it was revealed that he had engaged in sexual activity with sex slaves.

Biography
Robert Kraft was born to a Conservative Jewish family in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1941. He played football and served as class president at Columbia University, graduating in 1963; he received an MBA from Harvard Business School two years later. In 1968, he was elected chairman of the Newton Democratic City Committee, but he decided against running for the US House of Representatives, not wishing to put a strain on his family by entering politics. In 1968, through a leveraged buyout, he gained control of the Rand-Whitney Group packaging company, and he founded International Forest Products in 1972. They became the largest privately held paper and packaging companies in the United States, and, in 1986, he became President of New England Television Corp, unloading his shares in 1991 for $25 million. In 1988, he bought Sullivan Stadium out of bankruptcy for $22 million, and he purchased ownership of the New England Patriots in 1994 for $172 million. In 2005, he gave Russian president Vladimir Putin one of his Super Bowl rings, and it was placed on display alongside other state gifts at the Kremlin. Apart from his friendship with Putin, he was also a public supporter of Donald Trump, the Republican President of the United States. In 2019, 19 days after his team won Super Bowl LIII, it was revealed that Kraft had solicited sex slaves in Jupiter, Florida, and he faced first-degree misdemeanor charges for soliciting prostitution at the day spa.